Journal of Rural Studies

Article	Citations
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	220
Editorial Board	144
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	143
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	117
Recognising the value of volunteers in performing and supporting leadership in rural communities	102
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	99
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	95
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	87
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	80
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	78
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	75
Understanding rural system with a social-ecological framework: Evaluating sustainability of rural evolution in Jiangsu province, South China	68
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	67
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	66
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	64
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	62
Translocal livelihoods research and the household in the Global South – A gendered perspective	62
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	61
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	60
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	60
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	58
Consuming the earth? Terroir and rural sustainability	58
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	57
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	56
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	55

Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	54
The out-migration of young people from a region of the “Empty Spain”: Between a constant slump cycle and a pending innovation spiral	54
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	54
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	52
Smallholder rice farming practices across livelihood strategies: A case study of the Poyang Lake Plain, China	51
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	50
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms	50
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines	49
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification	49
Unmaking capitalism through community empowerment: Findings from Italian agricultural experiences	47
‘It's cheaper than a dead cow’: Understanding veterinary medicine use on dairy farms	47
Family labour organization for dairy farming in western Mexico. Between the search for productivity and wellbeing	46
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France	46
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town	46
Popular education, youth and peasant agroecology in Brazil	46
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar	45
Learning, adaptation and resilience: The rise and fall of local food networks in Denmark	44
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada	44
Coal seam gas extraction and related landscape changes in the agricultural production area of Western Downs (Queensland, Australia)	42
LEADER and rural development policy - What's the problem represented to be?	42
Exploring state pension provision policy for the farming community	42
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones	42
Entwined ruralities: Seasonality, simultaneity and precarity among transnational migrant workers in the wild berry industry	41
‘What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK	41
Local institutions and artisanal mining: Governance forms in the goldfields of Madagascar	41
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong	40
Editorial Board	40
Post-pandemic developments in lifestyle migration in Japan: From back-to-the-land to urbanrural?	39
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective	39
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–1982	38
Attending to nature: Understanding care and caring relations in forest management in the UK	38
Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type	38
Editorial Board	38
(Dis)connections between youth migration and food security in a rural community of the Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico	37
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration	37
Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas	37
Gender difference in time-use of off-farm employment in rural Sichuan, China	36
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects	36
Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside	36
Alternative measures of Family Farm Viability – Incorporating gap measures	36
An analytical framework to consider social justice issues in farmland preservation on the urban fringe. Insights from three French cases	36
It doesn't bother me: An intersectional analysis of discrimination among white women farmers in the US Corn Belt	36
Watermelon production as the driver of community resilience: More-than-human agency and the transforming rural assemblage	36
Financial subjectivities in the agricultural sector: A comparative analysis of relations between farmers and banks in Latvia, Denmark and the UK	35
Anticipating farmer outcomes of three genetically modified staple crops in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from farming systems research	34
Praised, prized, yet penalised: A critical examination of low-wage hiring queues in the global strawberry industry	34
Who are to support the aged in rural China? The study of people's willingness to purchase socialized care service and its influencing factors	34
Public transport-disadvantaged rural areas in relation to daily accessibility of regional centre: Case study from Slovakia	34
Regional variations in automation job risk and labour market thickness to agricultural employment	33
Historical transitions of seed breeding in China: From socialist cooperation to joint research	33

Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China	33
Editorial Board	33
Gender as an entangled force: Gendered mining entanglements, labor organization and leadership structure in artisanal and small-scale mining	33
Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers	32
Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming	32
Editorial Board	32
Newcomers and rural crisis: Beyond the demographic challenge. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)	31
The rural development trilemma	31
Designing precision livestock farming system innovations: A farmer perspective	30
Editorial Board	30
Europe's orchard: The role of irrigation on the Spanish agricultural production	30
Farmers’ limited perceptions of the role of ecological processes in crop production, a potential obstacle to agroecological transition	30
Agricultural value chain transformations: A comparative analysis of milling segment upgrading in the rice value chains in Ghana and Ivory Coast	29
Identifying new social enterprise models in the Italian municipalities	29
Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking	29
Farmers’ adaptive behaviors towards wildlife incidents regarding national park management: The role of informal institutions	29
Media framing of migrant labour in UK fruit and vegetable production: An analysis of reporting in UK farming and mainstream print press	29
Non-metropolitan settlement and integration outcomes of humanitarian migrants in Australia: Combining spatial, multidimensional and longitudinal perspectives	29
Elaborating decent work for agriculture: Job experiences and workforce retention in the Australian orchard industry	29
Social innovation in rural governance: A comparative case study across the marginalised rural EU	28
What influences the development of wine-producing regions? New economic opportunities in the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains in China	28
Editorial Board	28
Community Co-creation through knowledge (Co)Production: The engagement of universities in promoting rural revitalization in China	28
From Fisher wives to fish vendors: Gendered livelihood transitions in a fishing village in Egypt	28
What affects farmers' intention to learn about sustainability in online settings? An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour in Slovenia	27
Technical knowledge acquisition modes and environmental sustainability in Spanish organic farms	27
Requalifying markets of basic food commodities? An examination of the Round Table on Responsible Soy's implementation in Córdoba, Argentina	27
The “White middle-class farming woman”: Instagram and settler colonialism in contemporary rural Australia	27
Marginalisation through the eyes of the othered: Young adults choosing to live in rural Northern Sweden	27
Does the democratization level of village governance affect perceptions of security and integrity of land rights? -An analysis from the perspective of social network abundance	27
Beef as a socio-cultural identity: Rural and urban consumers' attitudes from Rio Grande do sul, Brazil, facing cultured beef	26
Beyond nostalgia: Older people's perspectives on informal care in rural Flanders	26
The unruly complexity of conservation arrangements with Mexican rural communities: Who really funds the game?	26
Maintaining emergency services in rural areas. Recruitment, retention and resignation of non-career firefighters in Sweden	26
A comparison of the mental health impacts and resilience of healthcare workers in rural Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Shifting forest landownership interests over the life-course of female forest landowners in rural Georgia, United States	25
Out of balance? Understanding resident-municipality relations in rural peripheries through ascriptions of responsibility	25
Who will benefit from big data? Farmers’ perspective on willingness to share farm data	25
The green transformation and gender equality in agricultural entrepreneurship: Insights from the European Union	25
Between institutional reform and building popular movements: The political articulation of agroecology in Brazil	25
The potential of local online shopping platforms for villages and small and medium-sized towns	25
Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality	25
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China	25
How digitalisation interacts with ecologisation? Perspectives from actors of the French Agricultural Innovation System	25
Do organic farming initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa improve the sustainability of smallholder farmers? Evidence from five case studies in Ghana and Kenya	25
Smart farming in mountain areas: Investigating livestock farmers’ technophobia and technophilia and their perception of innovation	25
Place-based rural development: A role for complex adaptive region assemblages?	25
Spatially explicit restructuring of rural settlements: A dual-scale coupling approach	25
“A lender should not know where you live”: Financial precarity, debt, and everyday life in rural Malawi and Tanzania	24
Contingent communality and community-based adaptation to climate change: Insights from a Pacific rural atoll	24
A relational approach to pesticide use: Farmers, herbicides, nutsedge, and the weedy path to pesticide use reduction objectives	24
Increase of fear of crime in rural Brazil and police legitimacy	24
Navigating industrial decline: A case study of place attachment and social capital in economic transition –Valemount, British Columbia	24
Editorial Board	24
State-led commodification of rural China and the sustainable provision of public goods in question: A case study of Tangjiajia, Nanjing	24
The impact of people's creativity and networks on spatial localisation - Locals, multi-locals, newcomers or returnees as an opportunity for civic engagement in rural areas	24
Antecedents and consequences of sustainable development in agriculture and the moderator role of the barriers: Proposal and test of a structural model	24
Tackling poverty and social isolation using a smart rural development initiative	24
Inter- and intra-annual changes in food consumption among rural households in East China	23
Residential migration among veterans with experience of housing instability	23
Impact of farmer differentiation on farmland abandonment: Evidence from Fujian's hilly mountains, China	23
Deliberative assembling: Tinkering and farmer agency in precision agriculture implementation	23
(Re)enclosure, structural violence and commoning in marine fisheries in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar	23
Heritage places and the place attachment of adolescents: The case of the Castelo of Vila Nova de Cerveira (Portugal)	23
“We left the crop there lying in the field”: Agricultural worker experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural US-Mexico border region	23
The global cotton trade network reveals a shift in the cotton import center to the global south from 1986 to 2020	23
Role of soil perception and soil variability by smallholder farmers in the low adoption rates of extension packages in Central America	23
The role of government interventions in household climate adaptation on the Tibetan Plateau	23
Reconnecting to nature amidst crisis: harnessing capacities and mobilities for livelihood and land transformations in the Greek back-to-the-land trend	23
Land dispossession, rural gentrification and displacement: Blurring the rural-urban boundary in Chengdu, China	23
Rural transition in the loess hilly and gully region: From the perspective of “flowing” cropland	22
Black Ecologies, subaquatic life, and the Jim Crow enclosure of the tidewater	22
Understanding the cultural potential of rural festivals: A conceptual framework of cultural capital development	22
Factors influencing the decision of young adults to remain in their rural environment: Social origin, education and gender	22
Intermediate levels of socio-ecological disturbance drive higher biodiversity in naturally regenerating forests: A case study from Nepal	22
“You sleep with your eyes open”: Understanding rural crime and its implications for community well-being	22
Building the plane in the air: Articulating neo-endogenous rural development from the ground up	22
Has farmer welfare improved after rural residential land circulation?	22
Promotional campaigns in the agri-food sector aimed at reducing meat consumption: A promising leverage for action	21
At the intersection of urbanisation and counterurbanisation in rural space: Microurbanisation in Northern Iceland	21

Compressed growth – The transforming power of the round bale technology	21
Seaweed aquaculture through the lens of gender: Participation, roles, pay and empowerment in Bantayan, Philippines	21
An urban-rural divide (or not?): Small firm location and the use of digital technologies	21
Contesting rural Australia in the time of accelerating climate change	21
Family farming and gender in a valley in northern Spain	21
Policy and politics: How specialist farming media frame climate action	20
Does planning production expansion have its intended effect in reality? Evidence from the dairy sector in Poland	20
Farmers’ empowerment and learning processes in accountability practices: An assemblage perspective	20
Soil-based carbon farming: Opportunities for collaboration	20
Migration, class and intra-distinctions of whiteness in the making of inland rural Victoria	20
‘The making of Hoepertingen’: Debating change in a village in Haspengouw (Belgium)	20
Creative assets, people, and places: Rural art action practices of US nonprofit organizations	20
Clarifying relationships between networking, absorptive capacity and financial performance among South Brazilian farmers	20
Wine grape grower perceptions and attitudes about soil health	20
Imagining an agrarian future in rural Rwanda: Evidence from Congolese refugees at Mahama camp	20
How mega events redefine rurality? CunBA and the (re)production of rurality in China	20
Farmers and their data: Evaluating the swiss conception of data sharing through the lens of digital farming	20
Exploration of values and agency in place-based food systems	20
>Intersectional knowledge as rural social innovation	19
Investments are more than money: Emerging investment rationales and farmers in the Danish agri-food system	19
Are landholders willing to collaborate under ELMs? Promoting collaborative conservation on a landscape scale in the UK	19
Understanding the impact of identity and socio-economic factors on the adoption of soil conservation practices: Empirical evidence from Australia	19
Marketing to the foodshed: Why do farmers participate in local food systems?	19
Resettlement, intergenerational memory, place attachment, and place identity in Roșia Jiu coal mine - Gorj County, Romania	19
What makes peripheral places matter? Applying the concept of political capital within a multiple capital framework	19
Farmland titling, farmland adjustment and rural collective action: Application of institutional analysis and development framework using evidence from China's irrigation commons	19
Smog and Air Pollution: Journalistic Criticism and Environmental Accountability in China	19
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?	19
Deciphering how promoting land consolidation for village revitalization in rural China: A comparison study	19
Prefiguring the counter-hegemony of open cooperativism: The case of Open Food Network	19
Urban-rural mobilities: The case of China's rural tourism makers	19
Different sales channels for different farmers: Local and mainstream marketing of organic fruits and vegetables in Norway	19
Spatial association of coastal towns and villages in Funing District, Qinhuangdao: A study using social network analysis	19
Scaling up mechanisms in citizen farming initiatives: Lessons learned from a citizen-led and collective agroecological farm	19
New farmers in the south of Italy: Capturing the complexity of contemporary strategies and networks	18
Interventions to reduce loneliness and social isolation in rural settings: A mixed-methods review	18
Ways of (un)knowing landscapes: Tracing more-than-human relations in regenerative agriculture	18
Investigating the Slow Food - Place relation: An empirical study of dairy communities in Abruzzo	18
Pathways of displacement: A pan-Canadian perspective on the nature and dynamics of rural and remote homelessness	18
Food transfers and translocal livelihoods in rural Africa – Longitudinal perspectives from six countries	18
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania	18
Determinants of returnees’ entrepreneurship in rural marginal China	18
Village leadership, social networks and collective actions in indigenous communities: Case of Hani rice terrace social-ecological system in Southwest China	18
Attachment to land and its downfalls: Can policy encourage land mobility?	18
Drivers of the peasant households’ part-time farming behavior in China	18
Conservation agriculture in new alluvial agro-ecology: Differential perception and adoption	18
The gap between administration and migrants: Terminologies and experiences of urban-rural migration in Japan	18
Production and reconstruction mechanism of consumption spaces in urban fringe areas under capital intervention: Evidence from Guangming town in Shenzhen	18
Role of the interaction space in shaping innovation for sustainable agriculture: Empirical insights from African case studies	18
Assessing the effect of soil testing on chemical fertilizer use intensity: An empirical analysis of phosphorus fertilizer demand by Irish dairy farmers	18
Unveiling the role of early child development in preventing poverty transmission in deep poverty-stricken areas of RuralChina	18
How does reverse entrepreneurship facilitate community transformation in rural China: Evidence from the Yellow Revier	18
‘The day I killed my cows was the day I walked away’: Mycoplasma bovis, moral economy and moral capital	18
Landscapes of care for dementia in rural South Africa	18
Rural gentrification, touristification, and displacement: Analysing evidence from Mexico	18
Rural innovation and the green transition: The role of further education colleges	18
Real estate 4.0 – Experiences from the rural	18
Trans in Arcadia: Transgender lives in the countryside and expanding Philo's ‘rural others’ beyond the cis	18
Navigating spatial justice: Exploring municipal planners’ logics in differentiated village planning	18
Ageing in place in a rural town in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Deweyan transactional perspective	18
Growing together – How institutional structures influence communal agricultural prosumption types and their potential for continuity	18
Innovation systems and affordances in climate smart agriculture	17
Policy discourses on homecare services for rural older people in Ireland: Spatial and age-based drivers of narratives and absences	17
Using a perception matrix to elicit farmers‘ perceptions towards stakeholders in the context of biodiversity-friendly farming	17
The “dreaded” daughter-in-law in Australian farm business succession	17
Local governance of a field in transition: The food policy council movement	17
Banditry as rural crime?	17
County town shrinkage in China: Identification, spatiotemporal variations and the heterogeneity of influencing factors	17
Editorial Board	17
How tourists change farms: The impact of agritourism on organic farming adoption and local community interaction in the Tyrol-Trentino mountain region	17
Is small beautiful? Techinical efficiency and environmental sustainability of small-scale family farms under the conditions of agricultural policy support	17
No farmer no food, assessing farmers climate change mitigation, and adaptation behaviors in farm production	17
Explaining farmers’ pro-environmental behaviors in rural China: A perspective of appraisal theory of emotions	17
Elementary school closures in Sweden over two decades: Geographical characteristics and the role of distance	17
Governing the rural: The case of Izmir (Turkey) in the Post-2000 era	17
“It all depends on what you value”: Value hierarchies as barriers to native biodiversity on dairy farms	16
Unpacking the narrative of agricultural innovations as the sine qua non of sustainable rural livelihoods in Southern Africa	16
Activating rural infrastructures in regional communities: Cultural funding, silo art works and the challenge of local benefit	16
Systemic enablers and barriers to extending the productive life of dairy cows in Switzerland	16
Relating the management difficulty to the abandonment rate of traditional mountain vineyards	16
Differing perceptions and tensions among tourists and locals concerning a national park region in Norway	16
Lock-ins and community resilience: Two contrasting development pathways in the Austrian Alps	16
The propensity for negative media reporting of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in Australia	16
Migrant resettlement in rural China: Homemaking and sense of belonging after domicide	16
City region thinking, a zombie idea in regional and rural development? Scotland and Finland compared	16
Finnish dairy farmers’ perceptions of justice in the transition to carbon-neutral farming	16
Multi-dimensional superposition: Rural collaborative governance in Liushe Village, Suzhou City	16
Reconceptualising sparsely populated remote edges through the concept of region and space	16
Water in the West: Analyzing the disconnect between farmers' and policymakers’ perceptions of Colorado River Basin shortages in Arizona	16
Looking for the local ‘grant-grabbers’: Cattle farmers' criticisms and emerging environmental subjectivities in southwestern France	16
Rural businesses and levelling up: A rural-urban analysis of business innovation and exporting in England's north and midlands	16
Participation in individual and collective agri-environmental schemes: A synthesis using the Theory of Planned Behaviour	16
Stay in dairy? Exploring the relationship between farmer wellbeing and farm exit intentions	16
Rural outmigration in Northeast Brazil: Evidence from shared socioeconomic pathways and climate change scenarios	16
Grassroots innovation: Scenario, policy and governance	16